Christ myth debate[edit]

In 2012, Davies weighed in on the Christ myth theory debate in the article Does Jesus Exist? at bibleinterp.com. He applauded the book Is This Not the Carpenter?: The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus edited by Thomas L. Thompson writing "the rather fragile historical evidence for Jesus of Nazareth should be tested to see what weight it can bear," criticizing scholars like Bart D. Ehrman who write with near certainty about Jesus' existence, and concluding "I don’t think, however, that in another 20 years there will be a consensus that Jesus did not exist, or even possibly didn’t exist, but a recognition that his existence is not entirely certain would nudge Jesus scholarship towards academic respectability."[9]

1QM: the War Scroll from Qumran: Its Structure and History (Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1977)

The Damascus Document (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1982)  0-905774-51-5

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Cities of the Biblical World: Qumran (Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1982)

Daniel (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985)

Scribes and Schools (Westminster John Knox, 1998)  0-664-22728-7

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In Search Of "Ancient Israel" (London and New York: T. & T. Clark Publishers, Ltd. 1992)  0-567-08099-4

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The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls, written with George J. Brooke, Phillip R. Callaway (London: Thames & Hudson, June 2002)  0-500-05111-9

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Whose Bible Is It Anyway? (London and New York: T. & T. Clark Publishers, Ltd. 2004)  0-567-08073-0

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Mark Daniel Carroll R.; David J. A. Clines; Philip R. Davies, eds. (1995). The Bible in human society : essays in honour of John Rogerson. Sheffield: Sheffield Acad. Press.  9781850755685.

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Exum, J. Cheryl; Moore, Stephen D., eds. (1998). Biblical studies/cultural studies : The Third Sheffield Colloquium. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.  9781850759706.

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Alastair G. Hunter; Phillip R. Davies, eds. (2002). Sense and sensitivity : essays on reading the Bible in memory of Robert Carroll. London [u.a.]: Sheffield Acad. Press.  9780826460493.

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Philip R. Davies, ed. (2002). First person : essays in biblical autobiography. London [u.a.]: Sheffield Acad. Press.  9781841272450.

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Davies, Philip R. (2007). Rogerson, John (ed.). The Old Testament world (Repr. ed.). London [u.a.]: T & T Clark.  9780567084880.

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Davies, Philip R. (2008). Memories of ancient Israel : an introduction to biblical history – ancient and modern. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press.  9780664232887.

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Linafelt, Tod; Camp, Claudia V.; Beal, Timothy, eds. (2010). The fate of King David : the past and present of a biblical icon. New York: T & T Clark.  9780567515469.

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(2009)

Are There Ethics in the Hebrew Bible?

(2009)

Whose Bible? Anyone's?

(2009)

Biblical History and Cultural Memory

(2005)

Do We Need Biblical Scholars?

(2003)

Final Comments on Minimalism

Minimalism, "Ancient Israel," and Anti-Semitism

The Origin of Biblical Israel

Abstract: The Judaism of the Damascus Sect

have been made available by T & T Clark.

Some of the essays from his festschrift